PrerequisitesTo fully understand the technical content in this book, the readers should be familiar with the basic Java 2 Micro Edition, Mobile Information Device Profile (J2ME/MIDP) APIs and development tools. A quick MIDP programming guide is provided in Appendix A.To run the end-to-end sample applications, you will need to deploy the serverside components to your own Java application server and run the clientside components on the desktop emulator or real devices. Please refer to the product manuals of your tools for step-by-step instructions.Although serverside Java is not the focus of this book, familiarity with basic Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) concepts such as servlets, Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC), Java Messaging Service (JMS), Java XML processing and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB), will help you understand various topics in this book. |